Course Description

Media, Information and Technoculture 350F/G Work in a Wired World

Workplaces, from factories and offices to studios to fast food outlets, are being transformed by digital networks. This course examines the controversies associated with these changes. Topics include occupational changes in an information economy; digital deskilling and reskilling; telework; flexibilization; the move from Taylorism to 'team concept'; workplace monitoring; the productivity paradox; the shifting balance between management and labor in a computerized work environment; technological unemployment on the information highway and the 'end of work' debate.

Prerequisite: Media, Information and Technoculture 201F/G or 246F/G, and registration in the third or fourth year of an MIT program, or permission of the Faculty.

3 lecture hours, half course

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